how is a race like a team? did you chose to join it? did you earn it? if you think about it, does it really define you as a person? only if you let it. i'm not saying being proud is a bad thing, i'm saying there is nothing there to be proud of. what exactly is it about your race that makes you proud? what attribute can you honestly say you posses other then your skin color because of your skin color? your race is human, be proud to be a human, ethnicity is irrelevant, and not something one should define themselves by.